[ic] Shipping woes

[Joachim Schubert]

Jamie Neil wrote:

> Just when I think I've got this thing sussed, it frustrates me again :(
> 
> I've got a Usertag which adds VAT onto all the displayed prices in my
> catalog (it's a consumer oriented site), and I can wrap it around just about
> any tag I want (price, total etc.) by using the contained tag's noformat
> option.
> 
> However I can't use it on tags which provide more complex output like the
> shipping tag when it is used to generate an options list. This means that
> when the customer gets to the checkout, the shipping entry in the basket
> says "£10" (using the VAT tag), but the select box for changing the shipping
> says "£8.51" for the same shipping type.
> 
You can format the shipping tag [shipping format="...." ....]
See: http://www.icdevgroup.org/cgi-bin/ic/docfly.html?mv_arg=ictags04.69 

> Short of writing my own shipping tag or embedding a fair chunk of code in
> the shipping page, can anyone think of a simple solution that I might have
> missed?
> 
> Maybe it would be useful to include the option to display prices with tax in
> the relevent system tags (price, shipping, total etc.)? Or am I alone in
> needing this kind of functionality?
> 
Not at all! That would be a very nice feature!


> Jamie Neil
> Versado I.T. Services Ltd.
> 
Regards,
Joachim Schubert